Does this really surprise anyone? This is precisely the same sort of thing that spy/covert agencies have been doing since time immemorial. Perhaps the only real difference is the degree to which technology has faciliated this sort of agit-prop.

Does this really surprise anyone? This is precisely the same sort of thing that spy/covert agencies have been doing since time immemorial. Perhaps the only real difference is the degree to which technology has faciliated this sort of agit-prop.

But it hasn't started something that wasn't already taking place before.

As counterpoint, tho', there is the distinct possibility that the internet, and technology in general, can also make it easier to spot and expose, particularly since the technology allows the recording and comparison of seemingly disparate posts and posters in order to find patterns and make identifications in a way that was not possible before.

Does this really surprise anyone? This is precisely the same sort of thing that spy/covert agencies have been doing since time immemorial. Perhaps the only real difference is the degree to which technology has faciliated this sort of agit-prop.

Not me! The problem is that many still have great difficulty recognizing it for what it is while it is occurring!

On July 4, 2008, Sunstein married Samantha Power, professor of public policy at Harvard, now United States Ambassador to the United Nations, whom he met when they worked as campaign advisors to Barack Obama, their friend and his former colleague at the University of Chicago Law School.[45]